Immigrants turn Orange County blue in 4 decades

In just 40 years, an immigration explosion has turned California’s Orange County – formerly a predominantly red Los Angeles urban sprawl area – into a new blue stronghold for Democratic candidates.

“The Democratic capture of four Republican-held congressional seats in Orange County in November – more than half the seven congressional seats Democrats won from Republicans in California – toppled what had long been a fortress of conservative Republicanism,” The New York Times reported in an article titled, “In Orange County, a Republican Fortress Turns Democratic.” “The sweep stunned party leaders – among them Paul D. Ryan, the outgoing House speaker. Even Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor-elect of California, won the county where Richard M. Nixon was born.”

Foreign makeover

The longtime conservative suburban haven no longer resembles what it looked like in decades past.

“To appreciate the vast cultural and political upheaval across Orange County over the last 40 years, look no further than Bolsa Avenue,” The New York Times’ Adam Nagourney and Robert Gebeloff explained. “The auto body shop, the tax preparer, a church, a food market, countless restaurants – all are marked by signs written in Vietnamese … or head seven miles west to Santa Ana, where Vietnamese makes way for Spanish along Calle Cuatro – a bustling enclave of stores and sidewalk stands serving an overwhelming Latino clientele.”

With California becoming a “sanctuary state” a year ago – not long after San Francisco became a “sanctuary city,” the embrace of Democratic pro-immigration policies by leftist politicians has made California into a safe haven for immigrants, who have taken over many communities in the previously conservative Southern California region.

“But the results [of November’s midterms] reflected what has been a nearly 40-year rise in the number of immigrants, nonwhite residents and college graduates that has transformed this iconic American suburb into a Democratic outpost, highlighted in a Times analysis of demographic data going back to 1980 – the year Ronald Reagan was elected president,” Nagourney and Gebeloff continued. “The ideological shift signaled by the most recent election results – on the heels of Hillary Clinton beating Donald J. Trump here in 2016 – is viewed by leaders in both parties as a warning sign for national Republicans, as suburban communities like this one loom as central battle grounds in the 2020 elections and beyond.”

Blue avalanche

The sharp demographic shift that has taken place in the county that is the home to Disneyland is the result of an immigration explosion that drastically changed the area – especially in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

“There was a steady decrease in white voters in the seven congressional districts that are in and around Orange County between 1980 and 2017, according to census data,” Breitbart News divulged. “In 1980, whites made up 75 percent of the population in the district … by 2017, that number dropped to 30 percent.”

And the number of immigrants in Orange County is expected to continue to grow with immigrants’ far-greater birth rates in the region.

“The county’s immigrant population grew five times as fast as the general population between 1980 and 2000, and while the pace of immigration has slowed, the Latino and Asian populations continues to increase – driven by the children of immigrant families born in the United States,” Breitbart’s John Binder noted.

It was pointed out by Marcia Godwin – a public administration professor at the University of La Verne in Los Angeles – that the registration advantage in Orange County once claimed by Republicans has considerably narrowed over the past few decades.

“You went from a solid Republican county to one in which Republicans were just barely the majority, and it fell pretty quickly in the past two years,” Godwin asserted. “You have had continued demographic changes. This is a county that went from majority-white to having a majority that are Latino and Asian-American. So, that has gone hand-in-hand – particularly with the rising Asian-American population – to voting more Democratic.”

Numbers at the polls are accurate indicators that Orange County is no longer the place it used to be, due to immigration.

“By every measure, this is a far different place than it was in the 1980s,” Nagourney and Gebeloff asserted. “The population of Orange County has grown from 1.9 million in 1980 to nearly 3.2 million in 2017; it is the third largest county in the nation’s most populous state.”

The flood of population increases for two ethnic groups has literally turned the political landscape in Orange County upside-down – as witnessed at the polls.

“In the 48th Congressional District – which voted out Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a fixture of Orange County Republican politics for nearly 30 years – the Latino population jumped to 145,585 in 2017 from 38,803 in 1980, or 8 percent, accounting for 21 percent of the district’s population,” the Times recounted. “In another corner of Orange County – where Representative Mimi Walters, a Republican, was upset by Katie Porter, her Democratic challenger – the Asian-American population jumped from 14,528 in 1980, or 4.4 percent, to 175,540 in 2017, making up just under a quarter of the total population.”

With the immigrant takeover in many Orange County communities, Democrats – such as Gil Cisneros, who stole a House seat formerly held by Ed Royce (R-Calif.) – are now winning handily at the polls.

“Because it’s becoming more diverse, it’s becoming more Democratic, because the Democratic Party is more inclusive,” Cisneros claimed, according to the Times. “This is no fluke at all. It’s been this way for a long time, and it’s going to continue to trend this way for a long time.”

America’s political landscape changing?

This trend is not only evidenced in Orange County, as it has been contended that there are now “two Americas.”

It is contended that immigration policy is mostly responsible for ethnic communities voting Democrat.

“House seats held by Republicans generally have significantly lower foreign-born populations than those held by Democrats – a likely indication of why the two parties are so far apart on immigration – especially in the lower chamber,” Axios’ Caitlin Owens and Chris Canipe explained at the time.

With Dreamers, amnesty and deportation being hotly debated last year, a large proportion of America’s ethnic minorities have put their trust in the Democratic Party’s open borders pro-immigration stance.

“The clock [was] ticking [last year] on protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, and Congress [was pressed to come up with] a solution,” Owens and Canipe stressed. “It’s obviously members’ job to reflect the interests of their constituents. [so] when the majority of a district’s voters don’t have any skin in the game, meeting in the middle can be tough.”

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As a third generation OC resident I can tell you that more than politics has changed as a result of (illegal) immigration. Crime, litter, graffiti, multiple families cramming into apartments and parking multiple vehicles on the streets; areas that were once garden spots are turning into garbage heaps. Cities like Santa Ana even use tax payer money to aid illegal immigrants get established. It has been heart breaking to watch an invading force move into my home and destroy it. But you can’t blame the immigrants completely; a majority of the blame lies at the feet of the Leftist/Marxist politicians who support illegal immigration because it increases their voter base, and solidifies their power positions, as well as on the shoulders of those who support and vote for them with the arrogance of believing that they are more compassionate than folks on the right because they are willing to give away what others have earned. The people of this state are cutting their own throats and don’t even know it.

One way or the other, California needs to be dealt with. If they continue this blatant anti-America and anti-Constitutional assault, then their representation in the government should be suspended. Above all, we need to get voter ID implemented, and get rid of the democrat’s ability to produce car loads of mysterious ballots. Without the illegals and the truckloads of “provisional” ballots, the democrats wouldn’t be winning anywhere near as many seats as they have been recently.

I have no confidence in legitimacy of the government that has been installed as a result of CA elections, lately. Keep in mind that the ruling cliques in Soviet Union and its satellites enjoyed huge “popularity” during elections there. Somehow, enthusiastic peoples who overwhelmingly voted for these cliques (or so the propaganda claimed) cheerfully overthrew each and every one of them once they had a chance.

The controversial Democrat party would gladly give our country away to a foreign state like China by helping a billion Chinese (in addition to millions of Mexican aliens and such) to vote in US elections in exchange for a prospect of securing a “Democratic” power grab.

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ltuser

3:26 pm January 7, 2019 at 3:26 pm

This is why i feel, AS LONG AS ca is allowed to stay a Sanctuary haven for illegal aliens, NOT ONE BLOODY VOTE FROM THE ENTIRE STATE Should matter for anything federal. Get rid of their 2 senators, AND ALL THEIR Representatives in the house..

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willhen50

8:12 pm January 7, 2019 at 8:12 pm

Good Luck with that, California created their hell hole and the conservatives should leave with the rest of them, thousands are leaving and if the people stay there won’t be enough in the piggy bank to go when they finally get the urge.

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ltuser

12:47 am January 8, 2019 at 12:47 am

Thing is, its not just conservatives fleeing. BUT LIBERAL nutzos as well, who seem to be ruining just about every large city they flee to, JUST LIKE THEY DID CA!..

You hit the nail directly on the head. Immigrants escaping socialism/communism are determined to make over the US. And their useful idiot enablers (overeducated whites whose biggest problem is finding a good maid) are too stupid to rue(?) the day their “dreams come true.” Where will they illegally immigrate to when they have destroyed America.

Motor voter registration and Vote Harvesting … two exceptionally troublesome laws have lead to massive numbers of illegal aliens being registered to vote… and likely voting in California.

Judicial Watch just won a settlement to have over 1.5 million names removed from the voter registration rolls in California… another 24K aliens were identified by California as improperly registered to vote. California federal election returns should be challenged at all levels and rejected by Congress… they are institutionally fraught with fraud… corrupting election returns.

The GOP in Congress needs to invoke Article 1, Section 5, Clause 1 and inform California that the Congress will not seat its recently elected members. California must be directed by Congress to revoke the laws which have created election conditions that make it impossible to determine if their reps are being elected by US Citizens and without massive voter and election fraud.

Congress must insist that California comply with federal election laws and end its abuses of the law… or face serious consequences… the rejection of their election returns. See Article 1, Section 5, clause 1 of the US Constitution.

I’m very much opposed to making it easy to register, largely because a civic duty is being turned into a popularity contest where few people actually know who they’re voting for (esp. those folks who say “I’m a Republican” w/o having any idea how bad their offerings have been for the voting population…as if “blood”=red=Republican). There need to be efforts extended by voters to actually LEARN what’s being offered to them at the polls (fact-checking of candidate rhetoric being primary concern). Again, voting isn’t merely a popularity contest. Voters need to do some “homework” to make good choices.

How many of these new “blue” voters are citizens I wonder? California might as well have already separated from the rest of America and sunk into the Pacific. If we gave it back to Mexico, would these blue elected officials commute to Mexico City and stop trying to destroy our Republic?

Ridiculous fact:
Mexifornistan’s economy is bigger and stronger than Mexico’s. If we gave the left coast to Mexico, they’d want Arizona, Nevada and Oregon next, and would have a pretty good chance of succeeding.

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ltuser

3:35 pm January 7, 2019 at 3:35 pm

And after that, they’d want more and more. SO LETS NOT GIVE THEM JACK.

Scarier, more states than CA have had their demographics changed through illegal, as well as legal, immigration, check VA and FL as examples. Some states, MI and MN, have enclaves of Muslim populations that refuse to assimilate, abide by Sharia Law not ‘The Rule of Law,’ and speak no English! Coming to a city near you?

WELL… WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO ABOUT IT?
nothing that’s what. we have not done anything about it yet so who thinks we will do it at all?
what we have here is a runaway government who steals our money and peas down my back.
our nation has disapeared right before our eyes we have let the liberals run roughshot with freebies and illegal aliens to help destroy america and now she is going on life support because we are affraid do stand up for her and if need be fight for her because of the political correctness labels that the left will bestow on us like racist,homophobic,biggot,heartless,haters,nazi’s.

Hence the great “concern” of the conniving Commucrats for illegal aliens, as they try to cram as many of them IN HERE as they possibly can, while obstructing Pres. Trump’s EVERY attempt to get control of our southern border and STOP the flood of illegal INVADERS pouring in. After all, the illegals can’t illegally vote for Commucrats in our elections, if they are not HERE.

Having driven off their “old” voter base with their insane Leftist LOONERY, they are now attempting to build a NEW one by importing HORDES of Muslim terrorists and keeping our borders WIDE OPEN to invaders from the south. Their goal is nothing less than to change the demographic makeup of the ENTIRE country to one of NON-American invaders who are easier to fool with their lies, and who come from largely SOCIALIST-ruled countries, and won’t oppose their efforts to COMMUNIZE this country.

This is nothing less than an attempted “coup-by-invasion” by the lying, America-hating, anti-liberty COMMUCRATS, and there is NOTHING they won’t say or do to further that TOXIC agenda.

Which also explains why dems are LOATH to do anything about voter fraud, or to prevent illegal aliens vote. THEY COUNT ON those votes to help keep them in power.
WHICH TO ME SOUNDS exactly what the “High treason” writ was wrote for.

It is not immigrants that are turning Orange County blue. It is illegal aliens. Illegals are not immigrants by any interpretation of the word. The globalists have broken laws and illegally appropriated tax money to buy votes by letting them break another law, voting. People that support illegal invasion of this country are criminals, as are their so called “immigrants”.

I knew the Progressive Socialist Democrats were lying about the 11 million illegals here, because the 11 million number never changed from year to year. Then a new study by an Eastern University estimates 22million illegals in the USA. Myself , I believe they do not know how many are here because illegals have been crossing for 40 or more years and then we have the visa over stayers that NO BODY wants to talk about! My estimate 50 million , may be more. Not only are illegals in very major city, also in several smaller cities. Just ask US Citizens .

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